I use 120 gb hdd and 2200 mah cameron sino battery too. I wouldn't call it "extreme tight fit" - yep, some force should be used when closing the case, but nothing extraordinary, or something that would kill the player or HDD. No "fiddly hacksaw/butchery mods" required. I use a good quality E&S adapter.

That tells no one anything at all. There are several proper adaptors that can be employed for modifying the storage media used in an iriver.

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I have two of these iRivers HP140, with the Cameron Sino 2200 mAh batteries, dual-platter 120 Gb harddiscs and slim-line adapters, and there was no problem fitting them together without any excessive pressure or strain on any part!
And without any "fiddly hacksaw/butchery mods"!

I have several iriver h120's and 140's some unmodded, some with extended batt's only, some with upgraded hdd's upto 120gb and some with cf cards.

What is your point other than you failed to adequately qualify your statement about no butchery mods being required.

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There was some old adapters that made putting these mods together quite difficult, they are still available for cheap.

Those who have been around irivers for a while only had the option of using the thicker adaptors at one stage.

However, the mods were never difficult, by any stretch of the imagination and by any ones standards of technical ability.

Literally, unscrew some screws, unplug battery and hdd and plug in new hdd and battery using an adaptor. Hardly rocket science.

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And some people still try to save some few bucks and using these inadequate adapters in the iRivers!
But stupidity on some peoples part still does not make your statement correct!

I am sure they do, and that is their perogative, however others, did the mod months and years before the new slimline adaptors were even available.

So in future, before you make a half arsed factually incorrect statement, check you know wtf it is you're going on about.

I think we all here want to know more about H1xxx series mod,so is better to share with the rest of us.
So is there need for any "fiddly hacksaw/butchery mods when you add a CF or a SDD into H1xxx series?

You can find reports of 64 GB CF mods in the forum section of Database Error as soon as the site gets back up.

ElEsio: somebody around here mentioned before that miscticriver if official closed.Anybody know more about that?It is a share not to be able to acces all that amount of information is on their database about iRiver.

In the last couple of weeks I've bought a second iHP-140 (off eBay), a 128GB SSD, and a 2200mAh replacement battery. I'll be sticking the all together as soon as the iRiver arrives. I'm just wondering if anyone else has tried this? I've heard of at least one 64GB SSD in an iHP-140, but a 128GB?

I'll also post the results of this little experiment hereabouts.

Considering to do the same thing with my H120 as Samsung's 128 GB SSDs are only 5 mm high. If their price was around USD 150 I wouldn't hesitate but even at todays 300ish I might take the plunge .

ElEsio: somebody around here mentioned before that miscticriver if official closed.Anybody know more about that?It is a share not to be able to acces all that amount of information is on their database about iRiver.

Yes, it seems misticriver is fairly dead... at exactly the moment I decide to open up my iRiver, nice timing.

Anyway, the operation to install the 128GB SSD was fairly unsuccessful. I managed to get a nice new high capacity battery in ok, but the SSD (even though it slipped into place easily) would not mount on either a Mac or a PC. I managed to detect it with Disk Utility on the Mac, but it showed up as a 4GB drive and I couldn't format it or do anything else with it. In fact there was no evidence that it was a 128GB drive at all apart from a small sticker on it. The vendor has agreed to a refund if I send it back to them. In China. Wish me luck!

Yes, it seems misticriver is fairly dead... at exactly the moment I decide to open up my iRiver, nice timing.

Anyway, the operation to install the 128GB SSD was fairly unsuccessful. I managed to get a nice new high capacity battery in ok, but the SSD (even though it slipped into place easily) would not mount on either a Mac or a PC. I managed to detect it with Disk Utility on the Mac, but it showed up as a 4GB drive and I couldn't format it or do anything else with it. In fact there was no evidence that it was a 128GB drive at all apart from a small sticker on it. The vendor has agreed to a refund if I send it back to them. In China. Wish me luck!

I'M BUMMED to hear of your unSuccess... was wishing you a Win.... ah well. This wacky hobby sometimes disappoints.